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  • It is quite straightforward in that it's a galley configuration and totally built in, but Mr. Sawyer painted the cabinetry a glossy spinach green, lined the space with white subway tiles and lit it with milk-glass hanging lights with Edison bulbs.

    In the Mood for Kitchens With Character Rita Konig 2011

  • Looking up, the big rectangular milk-glass light in the ceiling and the goosenecked high-power lamp affixed above the stirrups seemed both ancient and alien.

    Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010

  • That didn't stop him from erecting a 12'x16 'cinder block chapel, filled with paintings and milk-glass light bulbs.

    Dean Radinovsky, Artist, Builds A Chapel Inside An Upper West Side Warehouse 2010

  • That didn't stop him from erecting a 12'x16 'cinder block chapel, filled with paintings and milk-glass light bulbs.

    Dean Radinovsky, Artist, Builds A Chapel Inside An Upper West Side Warehouse 2010

  • I pointed the gun at the fixture and almost pulled the trigger; impatience snagged at me and I went to the kitchen and stood under the milk-glass dome of the overhead light and tipped my head back, exposed my throat.

    Archive 2009-09-13 Sean Craven 2009

  • A huge redwood desk sat under a chandelier of milk-glass moons, the wood grain gleaming like watered silk under the overhead lights.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • A huge redwood desk sat under a chandelier of milk-glass moons, the wood grain gleaming like watered silk under the overhead lights.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • I pointed the gun at the fixture and almost pulled the trigger; impatience snagged at me and I went to the kitchen and stood under the milk-glass dome of the overhead light and tipped my head back, exposed my throat.

    I Finished! Sean Craven 2009

  • A huge redwood desk sat under a chandelier of milk-glass moons, the wood grain gleaming like watered silk under the overhead lights.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • My grandfather's place near Milton, an old Victorian farmhouse, where the cat drank out of a milk-glass bowl; and where we sat around a rough pine table as big as my whole apartment; and where my playroom was the draughty barn with hay-filled lofts bulging with farm junk and Tarzan-ropes.

    Boing Boing: January 26, 2003 - February 1, 2003 Archives 2003

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